Dr. Jerry Smith, CTO at Symphony Services (www.symphonyservices.com), is a technology innovator and IT strategist focused on helping the company and its clients derive business value from the successful adoption and use of critical technologies. Previously, he was CTO, vice president of engineering and acting CIO for IPR International, a technology services company specializing in the protection and preservation of electronic information.
The saying "you can't manage what you don't measure" has never been so
applicable to software engineering as it currently is to SOA development. As
organizations are struggling with the day-to-day development implications of
SOA, business leadership is beginning to realize that success does not come
without effective organizational measures. Cross-organizational measures are
needed to bring transparency to those operational benefactors impacted by
SOA's promise of agility and cost reduction. But what should you measure and
are all measures equally important?
The answer to these questions is rooted in understanding the nature of the
first part of the opening quote - you can't manage. We manage because we want
to control and we need to control because we want to reduce ris... (more)
Dr. Jerry Smith, CTO at Symphony Services (www.symphonyservices.com), is a technology innovator and IT strategist focused on helping the company and its clients derive business value from the successful adoption and use of critical technologies. Previously, he was CTO, vice president of engineering and acting CIO for IPR International, a technology services company specializing in the protection and preservation of electronic information.
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